Huge fan of kofta. Nice little set up. Glad you worked out a solutoin though it's not ideal as you say. Neccessity is the mother of invention!
We did find a gasifier twig stove works well as you don't need a lot of wood and the fuel burns clean - it's the gas from the wood that provides the heat and you don't get covered in smoke. I'm sure you can fashion one from a tin or a can? Haven't watched the entire video but this is what I mean
Rockets stoves bring back camping memories. I used to use and make little stoves like this back in my backpacking days. If things stay like this much longer, I'll have to go in search of materials like bricks or paint cans to make a hotter stove than what we're using now. The Cubans across the alley have now teamed up with us, saying we shall run out of propane together first. Now they want us to prepare all of our meals at their place.
I boiled some water at their place last night, so it was nice to taste non-smoky water. Unfortunately for stir-fries, we need some super high heat from biggish logs, so it would turn a tincan rocket stove into a bright red inferno ready to crumple at any moment. If I can find three more concrete blocks like the ones we already have, I could fashion a large high-heat rocket stove.
Time is the most pressing issue each day, like dealing with heaps of bureaucracy, the lack of water, fruits and vegetables, etc. It's getting harder and harder each day to prioritize things, so ready to get the flock out of here.