5.0 out of 5 stars Great for cooking or pepping up that Indian Take Away

A. · 28 July 2025

LOVE IT.If you are reading this you are probably into spice. Its great for pepping up an Indian Takeaway where they did not provide the heat requested or for cooking your own.OF COURSEI had wings / well chicken nuggets and its hotIt has almost no flavour and is just heat, so is in fact great for cooking.I will be reordering but not for a few months.You only need 3 drops on a chicken wing as it is very potent.UPDATINGI have made several curries since ordering this and its a game changer, puts heat into them like never before but today I had a mishap. Had made curry last night, all good, 5 stars to me, left the sauce out. got some on my finger.Rubbed eye with finger. I now know what its like to be hit with bear spray and also I could feel the full 360 degrees of my eyeball. Is the back of your eyeball sensitive to spice>? yesDo not panic if this happens to you. 3mins of lots of water in face and i started to be able to open eye again, was fine 10mins later..Used about quarter of a bottle so far, when it runs out, i will be ordering more.When splashing face with water i could hear Sean saying "Be careful of the eyes" lol

5.0 out of 5 stars Lives up to the hype, explore your heat tolerances by all means but not the tastiest sauce

B. · 2 June 2025

Bought on its fame from hot ones and lived up to the hype. I would say this is a fun product for the heat enthusiasts and it delivers that in abundance! Very hot and hits in building waves. The warning to try a drop only is authentic and shouldn’t be ignored. I love hot sauces and whilst this is a novelty and a ‘dare to try’ sauce it isn’t the most flavourful ….just hot!

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely hot and even a challenge for a real hot sauce lover.

N.M. · 1 April 2021

This sauce is hot. Way spicier than the 135k scoville rating would lead you to believe. I have tried many hot sauces and this really takes the crown. Most people will not be able to handle it and even I, and I really like very spicy, only use a few drops in my food. The taste is extremely peppery and there are no real other flavours. I actually like that, as I hate the vinegary taste of a lot of other sauces. I have occasionally put to.much in my food, as the thick sauce can come out in a blob and that really gets the hiccups and sweat glands going.If the only sauces you have tried are tabasco and sriracha, you should stay well away from this sauce.Update: I have now tried “The Last Dab XXX as well as Apollo” and Da Bomb is hotter for sure. I do like the last Dab sauces as they taste better, but just don’t deliver the same heat (although listed as 2 million scoville).

4.0 out of 5 stars It's evil! But decent.

B. · 28 February 2025

Bought as a gift for son in law who shares my taste for spice and heat. Oh my, it is volatile! Incredibly hot and would only recommend a tiny amount when tasting. The focus is on the heat rather than the flavour, although the flavour is not too bad. May be of use in certain dishes, but really this sauce is a dare between mates rather than a good ingredient.

5.0 out of 5 stars As hot as expected!

M.T. · 10 May 2024

I am extremely happy I got this, and it's every bit as hot as rumored. For years I have watched Hot Ones and wondered about the dreaded sauce, Da Bomb. I considered buying it for a long time, but I had heard its flavor was horrible and such.What changed my decision was another review I read here (to that reviewer, I say thank you, and of course I marked your review helpful) which said something that was key for me: the sauce doesn't have a particular flavor, it's simply hot. I personally dislike the vinegary flavor many hot sauces have. Da Bomb has none of that. Da Bomb is merely a very hot sauce, but it has no particular flavor, which means, especially for my preferences, it has no vinegar flavor.I think this is a great sauce for cooking if you want to increase the heat of your dishes without affecting other flavors. Be careful, as even one drop can make an entire meal quite hot. But if you want your food to have a strong, hot kick without affecting other flavors, this is the perfect sauce. Again, as the copy text states: Caution: Hot!

5.0 out of 5 stars Child birth pains

T.J. · 10 March 2025

This is easily so far the hottest hot sauce I’ve ever had in my entire life. If you are going to use this source use it sparingly I find that 6 to 8 very small drops gives me the right level of heat.The first night that I had this sauce, I used a couple of drops barely felt a thing. The next night I decided to put a fair bit more in about half a teaspoon. After a couple of bites are starting to feel the burn it got worse. I had all this food no time to cook another meal and I didn’t wanna throw it away so I waited for it to cool down and downed it as quick as I could. BIG MISTAKE the ensuing pain I felt like I can only imagine child birth is like. I was an absolute agony. Bear in mind that I am Indian and I still found it hot. So yes, use it very sparingly and increase it by one small drop at a time if you want more heat.Definitely does what it says on the 10 is expensive for a bottle of hot sauce, but you get what you pay for. It is really good and it taste quite nice too.

5.0 out of 5 stars Ulcer

M. · 14 July 2025

Will give you a ulcer. Very hot

3.0 out of 5 stars Not worthy of the hype, in my opinion.

J. · 18 October 2021

As a long time 'Hot Ones' fan and a hot sauce lover, naturally I wanted to try the fabled Da Bomb - the sauce that contestants struggle with the most. Opening the lid you're met with a slightly chemically pepper scent that hits your senses immediately. Now this is a hot sauce. One tiny dab on the end of a finger will engulf your mouth in flames, and it builds and builds into a seemingly never ending heat. But there is no flavour, the heat feels artificial in nature.I had a fair dollop with a kebab, and even with frequent dipping I just about managed to keep in check. Don't get me wrong, it's hot. But the heat tails off quicker than I anticipated and honestly doesn't match the hype surrounding the sauce. It's unpleasant to eat with, but as a party piece or challenge sauce, it has a place in my opinion. While I've not really had anything that delivers an 'immediate' heat like this does, I have certainly had hotter dishes and sauces that really have a sustained heat.

Vraiment très fort… !!! Really very hot

P. · 15 October 2024

I bought it to use on some food to teach my dog not to steal food. It’s the only one that works. I tried 100000 scoville em and my dog just licked it, relax.Now I still have to taste it myself with some good food: I tasted it and I almost had blood coming out of my ears

Sehr scharf, aber ohne in eine Mutprobe auszuarten

S. · 17 June 2018

habe schon so einiges an scharfen Saucen hinter mir. Viele sind extrem scharf, so dass man sie entweder immer verdünnen muss, oder die Einnahme muss als Mutprobe gestaltet werden.Diese hier ist von der Schärfe her so, dass es noch erträglich ist und auch durch den Ghost Pepper wirklich gut schmeckt. Ich persönlich bin ein Freund von Ghost Pepper und es war mir wichtig eine solche Sauce zu erwerben. Die Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper aber ist mir auf Dauer zu scharf. Gleichzeitig ist diese Sauce hier nicht sauer, ein Umstand, der mich an den Blair's Saucen stört - bei denen hat alles eine säuerliche Note.Gut pur und als Zusatzschärfe in einem passenden Gericht.

Mild compared to the other Da Bomb range but good, tasty

K.C. · 26 July 2025

Mild compared to the rest of "Da Bomb" range but good, tasty according to my husband who is the hot sauce enthusiast. With the other stronger versions of Da Bomb he has to mix it and spends more time crying and sneezing than eating...it's not my bag but he loves it

I expected more

A. · 17 October 2023

Yes, it is a hot sauce. But you need to take a coffee spoon of it to actually feel that burning sensation in your mouth.

Da Bomb: well-deserved name and internet fame, but a flavorless foe

J.T. · 2 September 2020

Holy seventh circle in hell. This sauce... absolutely deserves its reputation on the show Hot Ones as the sauce that breaks anybody down, regardless of spice tolerance or affinity. I bought it purely just to experience it because it's hilarious how people on Hot Ones react to it — and I didn't underestimate it because I knew that if I did, I'd be in for a hellish experience, and mind you, I love spicy food, but this truly is -stupid- hot. Like comparable-to-Satan's-butthole-hot. If you like spicy food and are scoffing at this review and others thinking, "Oh pfft, it can't be THAT bad," oh it IS. This WILL humble you. I'm smirking just thinking about someone who goes into tasting this and underestimating it.If you're for some reason on here looking for a hot sauce that has flavor, this isn't it. This is literally like spraying pepper spray directly onto your tongue, and then squirming in pain exactly like the interview subjects in Hot Ones. The people on there are not exaggerating; I tasted a tiny DROP, literally a RAINDROP size drop less than the diameter of a DIME, on a tortilla chip, and even that small drop was tear-inducing, made my nose run, and pure P A I N sat on my tongue and the roof of my mouth for 15 minutes. It has an extremely faint Chipotle flavor, but not the delicious smokiness you typically get from Chipotle sauces. It's almost flavorless. It's like licking burned, unseasoned, charred meat, but just spicy and painful. I'm not exaggerating. Don't buy this for something tasty.***If you're doing this just as a Hot Ones challenge, here's what you need to know: it does indeed have a half-life, as Sean Evans has said on the show. It will hurt pretty bad for like 15, 20 minutes tops and make it hard to speak or even think in that time period, after which it slowly starts to ramp down. If you're going to have something to drink, I didn't do milk, but I did try water, and the water honestly didn't help that much. Scientifically, it's not supposed to work to quell the sensation of pain because all it does is spread the capsaicin (pepper extract) farther into your mouth and esophagus. If water is all you have though, make it ICE COLD. Cold beverages are better than lukewarm, because it'll actually make it feel less hot in your mouth. I don't know if it would help others, but I had a Dunkin Donuts iced coffee next to me when I did the challenge, and it surprisingly worked way better to ease the pain than the water??? It might be because of the high amount of cream, sugar, and ice in it, but hey, if it worked for me, it might work for someone else! Just sip on it constantly in the recovery period, and it'll genuinely feel like the pain is going away. As for whether or not this will make your stomach hurt and run to the bathroom, that didn't happen to me and I was totally fine after about 30 minutes, but again, all I took is a tiny drop, so if you're going to coat a chicken wing with this stuff, yeah, you'll probably wanna make sure you're near a bathroom. I can't imagine it's good for your internal organs to have more than a drop of this at a time. It even says on the bottle: "Consume one drop at a time with extreme caution!" You better heed that warning wholeheartedly. They ain't jokin' around.Sean Evans, I tip my hat to you, sir, for being obligated to do this hundreds of times. I'm unsure how you still have tastebuds after eating whole wings covered in this blasphemous substance, but I applaud you for doing it and taking it like a champ. Hot Ones fan forever!