Taco Bell Secret Menu: Hacks and How to Order

Not officially. Taco Bell has never published a hidden list or a password that unlocks one. What exists is a long set of fan-made recipes that rearrange items already in the kitchen: swap a sauce, add guacamole, grill a burrito, remove a layer.

If you search for secret menu Taco Bell hacks, you will find the same names again and again: Cheesarito, Superman, Hulk, Incredible Hulk and Lava Sauce. They spread through word of mouth, forums and social media, and the exact recipe changes from one writer to the next.

Other names for the idea include the Taco Bell hidden menu, the hack list and the off-menu list. They all mean the same thing: a custom order that staff can make because every ingredient is already in the restaurant.

The biggest change in recent years is that Taco Bell moved part of this into its own app. A feature called Fan Style lets Rewards members build, name and share a custom order, which turns a whisper into something official. You will find details in the Fan Style section further down.

The honest answer for ordering is simple. Hacks work when every ingredient exists at your store and the change is something the app or the crew can handle. They fail when a part has been retired, or when a store is slammed and cannot do a special build. Treat each recipe here as a typical build and expect small differences.

The secret menu items at Taco Bell fall into three tiers, and knowing which tier a name belongs to saves you from asking for something that no longer exists. Tier one is hacks you can still build. Tier two is former hacks that now have official menu status. Tier three is retired items that fans try to rebuild.

Difficulty here means how much of the order the app can handle alone. Easy means two or three changes in the app. Hard means a long chain of swaps, or a request that may need a person at the counter.

The Superman burrito is a stacked, filling burrito that fans make by loading extra beef, potatoes and guacamole into a regular burrito. Sources disagree on the base. One popular version starts with a Cheesy Double Beef Burrito and adds seasoned potatoes and guacamole. Another starts with a Beefy 5-Layer Burrito and adds potatoes, extra beef and nacho cheese.

Pick one version and order it the same way every time. Here is the build most guides agree on in spirit:

1. Order a Cheesy Double Beef Burrito in the app.
2. Add seasoned potatoes.
3. Add guacamole.
4. Place the order and check that each add-on shows as its own line.

For anyone ordering by voice, list each add-on separately so it rings up correctly. This is how a taco bell superman burrito gets built without confusing the crew.

Calories are an estimate that you build from the pieces. The Cheesy Double Beef Burrito is listed at 560 calories in the live menu data, and every add-on raises that number. Potatoes and guacamole both add more. Treat anything near 700 to 800 as a reasonable guess for a loaded version, and remember it is not an official figure.

If you want a lighter take, start from the Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito instead of the beef one and add only the potatoes. You lose the Superman name but keep the idea.

The Incredible Hulk is a green-themed burrito, and its name comes from the guacamole. The usual build starts with a Beefy 5-Layer Burrito, removes the sour cream and nacho cheese, and adds guacamole. Some guides swap the beef for steak. Because the recipe shifts by source, ask for exactly what you want and do not rely on the name alone.

The Hulk and the Incredible Hulk are two different orders, and the mix-up is common. The Hulk is the simpler one: a Bean Burrito with guacamole added. The Incredible Hulk is the beef version with more changes. If you order by name at the counter, expect the crew to ask what you mean.

Here is the way to build the Incredible Hulk in the app.

1. Choose the Beefy 5-Layer Burrito and open customize.
2. Remove sour cream and nacho cheese.
3. Add guacamole, and add steak if you want that version.
4. Grill it if the option is available for your order.

Calories start at 490 for the Beefy 5-Layer Burrito in the live data. Removing sour cream and cheese trims some, and guacamole adds some back, so a build around that figure is a fair estimate. The Bean Burrito behind the plain Hulk starts at 360.

Fan Style is a feature in the Taco Bell app that lets Rewards members build a custom order, name it and share it. Taco Bell launched it in July 2025, and it is the closest thing to an official hack system the chain has produced.

You build a Fan Style by customizing an item in the app: add or remove ingredients, swap sauces, then save it with a name. The app creates a shareable graphic and a link. When other people order your Fan Style through that link, you earn Rewards points equal to the value of the item they order.

Taco Bell's own example is called Dan Made This. It takes a Cheesy Gordita Crunch, removes the Spicy Ranch, and adds Creamy Jalapeno sauce and jalapenos. Nothing about it is exotic, and that is the point: a Fan Style is a small tweak with a name.

At launch, the app did not show other people's creations. Fans had to find them on social media or through ads. Taco Bell also said it would put selected Fan Styles on the national menu for a limited time, and the first group arrived on November 20, 2025.

The three winners were the California Crunchwrap, which swaps steak for seasoned fries and guacamole in a Crunchwrap, Burrito Bliss, a vegetarian build on a Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito with pico de gallo, Fiesta Strips and Avocado Ranch, and Cantina Craze, a Cantina Chicken Crispy Taco with Creamy Jalapeno sauce, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream. They were sold in the app and at kiosks for a limited time.

For more recent additions that people build on, see the newest menu additions to build on. The Creamy Jalapeno swap that shows up in so many builds is covered in the Creamy Jalapeno sauce guide.

Taco Bell Fan Style Menu Examples

The best examples of a Fan Style share one trait: they use ingredients that every store already has. Dan Made This is a sauce swap with jalapenos. Liv's Lil Snack, another Taco Bell example, is a vegetarian version of loaded nachos with no beef and extra beans and peppers.

The winners from the national run show the range. One replaces meat. One is vegetarian and grilled. One adds a sauce and fresh toppings to a Cantina Chicken taco.

If you want to make your own, start with something you already order and change one or two things. Naming matters, because the name is what people see when you share it. A short, funny name tends to travel further than a description of the ingredients.

Because the app does not browse other fans' creations, the practical way to use someone else's Fan Style is to open their link or copy the changes by hand.

Lava Sauce is the classic sauce hack: nacho cheese sauce mixed with hot sauce. The usual way to make it is to ask for a cup of nacho cheese sauce, add two Hot, Fire or Diablo packets, and stir. It is a rebuilt version of an older Taco Bell sauce that is no longer on the menu, so it only works as a do-it-yourself mix, and staff cannot make it for you unless they have a cup of nacho cheese sauce to hand over.

Other sauce hacks follow the same logic. Ask for extra Creamy Jalapeno on a quesadilla for a cooler, richer bite. Put Diablo on nachos when you want the heat to cut through the cheese. Swap Spicy Ranch for Creamy Jalapeno on a Cheesy Gordita Crunch, as the Fan Style example does.

A few practical notes make sauce hacks easier.

1. Packets are free, but extra sauces and cups can cost a little in the app.
2. Heat stacks. Two Diablo packets is a lot, so taste after the first.
3. Use Mild and Hot together if you want a medium level, since Taco Bell has no medium packet. If you like the result, save it as a Fan Style so you can reorder it without retyping the list.

If you want to know what each packet does, the heat ranking is in the hot sauce guide, and all Taco Bell sauce options lists the rest.

Taco Bell secret menu items borrow their numbers from the base item, then change with every add-on. The table gives the live calories and delivery-app starting prices for the items these hacks start from. Delivery prices run higher than prices in the restaurant, and builds are estimates, so use the table as a floor, not an exact total.

Each add-on shifts the numbers. Extra cheese, nacho cheese, sour cream and guacamole add calories, while removing sour cream and cheese takes some away. The honest range for most burrito hacks is a few hundred calories above the base, which puts a loaded build somewhere between 600 and 900. That is an estimate from the pieces, not a Taco Bell figure.

For the official calories of regular items, use the calorie data for base items. For general pricing, see typical menu prices.