Tom, who “doesn’t do weird stuff like this” has also thrown drums and cymbals of cliffs, tried to take his fingerprints off with pineapple, and sent garlic bread to space.

"I've got a headache. It's probably all in my head." Yes, that is generally where headaches are.

"Cursed Historical Artifact" if that doesn't describe Ashens channel, I don't know what would

Tom and Ashens discussing the finer points of carcinogenic water gives me huge "Plato and Aristotle" vibes

Tom "I don't normally do weird stuff like this" sends garlic bread into space.

Barry sure seems different today

"Have vodka on hand in case it's lethal" Ashens learned everything he needs to know about food safety from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Uploaded just days before the COVID pandemic was declared. Drinking 15 year old water was one of your last human interactions before COVID. Congrats.

*Tom:* Should we drink the 15-year-old water? *Ashens, who once drank 45-year-old water:*

The most ambitious crossover ever attempted...

Coming from Canada where they still sell Dasani, I can absolutely promise you it just tastes that way. During the pandemic, it was the only case of water you could reliably still find in stock at grocery stores 😂

it seems 1,000,000 people have now watched these two gentlemen drink 15 year old plastic-y water. What a time to be alive!

*when the bottle opens and Nineties air escapes* Nice hiss.

"I don't normally do weird stuff like this" says the man who tried to take his fingerprints off with pineapples

If anyone is wondering what Dasani used to taste like: Water from a popular wishing well, which has absorbed the metallic flavor of every dirty coin within it.

For the record, the decompression you see is the nitrogen inside having leaked out. When they put non-carbonated beverages in cans or bottles they use nitrogen instead of CO2 to keep the containers in tension, which is why sealed containers are really strong while open containers are weak and malleable. The nature of a plastic seal vs. metal in terms of heat expansion, compression, and what not as well as diffusion in general means outward seepage over long periods though. The plastic membrane is very slightly permeable to NO2 but not CO2 or the air around it though, hence the bottle still having a vacuum seal with gasses rushing in only upon opening. This is also why primarily metal and glass containers are still used for dedicated gas containers even after the advent of incredibly strong polymers. Polymers can withstand pressure without breaking, but on an atomic level can still allow for minor amounts of leakage. In other words, it's "safe" from an air exposure perspective. That said, the water probably dissolved the lining at least a bit by now (since water is _very slightly_ acidic) which is probably why it tastes and smells like plastic.

"I've got a headache now, it's probably all in my head" Well... yes... that's where headaches are.

11:10 Mr. Tom just went "xnopyt" and drank straight from the bottle, absolute Mad lad.

At the time of the scandal, and being a science nerd myself, I bought a bottle. I still have it, sealed, in my cupboard at home and told the children the story but they didn't believe me. Thanks to Tom's channel i have been vindicated. Following this i will NOT be opening it and certainly wont be drinking it.

Important note: Every taste and smell you described is suspiciously similar to how US Dasani water was in the early 2000s. I blacklisted it as a kid because it tastes like plastic and smells like a poorly kept beach. We called it "Rubber band water", and were all very happy to hear it got banned from the UK. Dasani, as it originally comes, is probably equally as awful as what you just had.

5:27 "I don't normally do weird stuff like this", says the man who once ran for parliament dressed as a pirate and even got a vote from Noel Gallagher...

"I'm just waffling so we're putting off trying the cancer water." Is a phrase never spoken

Dasani US water has always tasted vaguely like salted pool water you microwaved in a non-microwave safe plastic bowl and let cool. Like, I’ll drink it if I’m actually thirsty but I won’t choose it given the option. And they added TONS of salt back in the day as “minerals” and I think they were sued because it made you thirstier.

“Cheers.” *sip* And that, my friends, is how we lost two of the more entertaining educators on KZfaq.

Ashen's channel is just the meeting hub for the British KZfaqr Extended Universe.

"I don't normally do weird stuff like this" Says the man who turned an old tower into a morse code machine, tried to set his friend up for a date on an LCD billboard in Cardiff, poached salmon in a dishwasher...

How is this a 13 minute video of two mates drinking water, and I'm watching it happily?

Ashens stop indoctrinating other youtubers into your expired food cult.

Should've imported a bottle of Dasani from the US for comparison.

I’m pretty sure that March is the month that the world really started turning to sh*t... This was uploaded in March. Tom Scott and Ashens has inadvertently unleashed Armageddon upon opening the last bottle of Dasani

Just to let you know, that phrase about osmosis that your teacher had you remember is technically correct. In this instance, a weak solution contains a lot of water and a strong solution contains little water. As such, in terms of water flow it is from weak to strong, and it would be diffusion where it is strong to weak. One of the many annoyingly specific and redundant things that I have to memorise for Y10/11 biology.

Everyone: I can't find 17-year-old water anywhere Ashens: Uses the power of tat

Mom: what are you watching Me: people drinking water Mom: why don't you just drink water Me: mom you don't get it

Tom and Ashens should partner up more often since Tom is looking to finish his 10 years on youtube in 2024. It would be fun see you guys review products at the counter more often. Nice change of pace from Ashens on his knees for the viewer's delight.

I worked at Woolworths when this stuff was released (2004 I think) and remember having to open and pour away about 20 cases of the stuff, to the point where my finger and thumb were so sore that they started bleeding. Like some weird form of torture.

“Slight drinking problem” Tom Scott pulling a Ted Striker there…

"We can't keep them waiting!" "Oh, yes we can! That's the format!"

"It's got a tang of something." "I'm gonna go with plastic." Amazing how over 15 years, so little changes.

9:25 Tom's reaction when gagging and Ashens trying to keep a straight face after is priceless looool

At 7:55 when Tom tells Stu to just waft it instead of sniffing it, that's a heard earned lesson from the time Tom stuck his nose in a corpse flower in bloom and took a big, deep sniff.

Tom: “This might be the last Dasani bottled water in existence.” Stuart: “Oh my God, I never thought of that!” Tom: “Do you wanna open it?” Stuart: “Yeah!” If Indiana Jones *was* after it, you should have learned to not open old artefacts, on pain of melty-face death. EDIT: Just checked eBay - there are currently a few sealed bottles on there for about £5 each, and one of the large ones for £30 buy-it-now.

“Let’s try the cancer water.” Famous last words

"It smells of a drain, Tom" I could immediately smell it 🤢

Chemist here: The bottle it is not air tight. It is very tight, but it is not completely air tight. When the bottle was made, the production probably added water with a certain pressure. And pressured water can dissolve more gas than non pressured water (nitrogen, mainly, and some oxygen as well). The pressure of the bottle was, then, slightly higher than the pressure outside. Over the ears, due to diffusion of the gas (which is very slow but it does happen), the pressure inside the bottle got into equilibrium with the pressure outside. As the pressure inside got lower, the atmosphere pressure then pushed the plastic walls and this is why the water bottle was like that. When they opened it, air didn't come off. It got in. The hiss was just air current passing through a very small opening. The air inside the bottle was very probable not 14 years old. Most certainly today's air.

I’m surprised steve1989MREinfo isn’t here with that kind of hiss.

This collaboration needs to happen again

I don’t like drinking bottled water because to me it always tastes like plastic, even if “fresh”

American here, I've drunk a few dasanis in my life, only when it was the only option. It always tastes like chemicals and plastic. It's awful.

15-17 year old water "All the nineties references!" *Checks calander

These guys have shockingly similar voices that I never connected until I heard them together

9:45 "Slight drinking problem there" Well yes I know what it means but that out of context 😂

"that's 90s air" oh not anymore, it's 2020 so 15 years ago this was 2005. Ashens We are old and that's a fact

Drinks 15 yo potentially cancerous water: this is fine 5 min later: lemme wipe this spit off the lid before I drink from it

I took ten minutes out of my day just to watch two english men drink water. In wine glasses. Classy.

Now I've watched you drink that stuff I'm desperate to tell you what I know about it, but I signed a form when I worked for CCSD and I'm not allowed to. All I'll say is I hope you've already had all the children you ever wanted.

"I'm pretty sure the taste of it is plastic and microorganisms." As an American, I can assure you, Dasani is just garbage to begin with.

water: 50% microplatics: 50% carcinogens: priceless

I'd love to watch the Tom and Ashens show more often. They play off eachother well

I’m going to tell my kids this was Fry and Laurie

Technically his definition of osmosis is correct because osmosis is when solvent from a weak solution moves to a strong solution in order to dilute the strong solution through a selectively permeable membrane where the solute cannot pass.

Stuart: "Small sips at a time" Tom after 2nd try: *Glugs down a quarter of the drink*... not feeling so good now.

"It may all be in your head but the pain doesn't go away"

just revisiting. two absolute legends of youtube

The new panel show from the Technical Difficulties: One Of These Glasses Is Dasani

When Tom swigged it from the bottle, I imagine the taste hit him like a lorry.

I've noticed that when empty plastic bottle is closed on low air pressure, on high pressure it is squeesed.

I'm not surprised Tom Scott knows Simon Pegg

"Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history" Ashens & Tom Scott: "Hold my Dasani..."

12:01 Stuart: "And that's what we've learned today, it may all be in your head, but the pain doesn't go away." So true, Ashens. So true. 😢

This was a collab I didn’t know I needed

This is the collaboration I didn't know existed until now, but I am very glad it happened!!

Taking a sip of Dasani is like tasting the dryness of the desert

"Do you taste plastic?" "I got a headache now." "He's delusional, get him to the infirmary!" "ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION!" trailer to DASANIBYL, 2020

I would never have expected to see such a collab

You kinda look like Gus Johnson if he had brown hair and was in his 40s

"Oh, it tastes like water.... Eugh" Yup, it's Dasani.

"We can't keep them waiting" "Oooohhh yes we can, that's the format!" Love it! 🤣

I would pay for these two to have a show

This is a crossover I never expected but, as a subscriber to both their channels, I'm glad it happened and would love to see more from them in the future. Now I just need Ashens and Techmoan to collaborate and I win a set of steak knives!

Sitting here and thinking "stop drinking the plastic flavoured water!"

ashens: stays in the corner of the uk, inviting content creators from all around uk content creators: oh shit here i go travelling to ashens again...

12:09 "thank you very much for coming on, Dan" is there something that we don't know about Mr Scott over there

uploaded on my birthday last year, dunno how I missed this present lol, great pair for a collab

I was working in a shop at the time the whole debacle went down and we were told to dump it all down the sink so that's probably why you've had trouble finding it

When they mention microorganism I was kind of thinking, "I wonder how this stuff would look under a microscope compared to tap water and fresh bottled water."

I never thought I would see a colab of ashens and tom scott!

The collab I never saw coming

Tom: That's some 17-year-old air that we're breathing. Stuart: Mmm, that's some 90s air. Me: Oh Stuart, I'm sorry… that's some 2003 air that you're breathing.

"This might be the last Dasani bottled water in existence." U.S. Dasani: am i a joke to you?

If only Tom knew what had been in those glasses over the years.

The smell isn’t weird, Dasani smells just as weird over here.

Dasani always tasted like chemicals with a gross aftertaste. Seems like it tasted the exact same. Probably the worst bottled water available in 'Merica

Every single American is going "Its probably just like finding a water bottle in your room after a week and taking a swig" cus from what they are saying I know exactly what its like, you could probably recreate the experience by buying a fresh bottle from the USA and leaving it in the back of your car for a week then try it.

The whole water glasses switcharo reminded me of the scene in the princess bride with the Iocaine powder.

As an American who's drank Dasani a few times, I can definitely say Dasani has a weird taste. To be honest I think Dasani tastes like total garbage. I'd rather drink tap water straight out of my sink.

"That's 90s air". 2020-15 = 2005, Stuart.

The reason it contracts iirc, is due to water molecules escaping over time through the plastic. particularly when its warm.

"WE CAN'T THEM KEEP WAITING!" "Oh we can, that's the format!"

As noted at the start, it's still on sale here in Canada. I've worked retail here. Customers buy it as a last resort and will often go out of their way to ask you, while stacking the shelves, if you have any other brands. Everyone knows it's hot garbage. But it survives as a brand, because yay 'Murican consumerism.

I actually drank Dasani back in the day. I even bought it knowing that it was tapwater (to some teasing). I didn't like my own tapwater and Dasani tasted better than it. Dasani was the cheapest of the bottled waters, I think it was even cheaper than Tesco own brand for a 6pack of the large bottles. It tasted fine, unremarkable, inoffensive. It had none of the bad tastes that some brands of bottled water had. I wouldn't say I loved it, I only bought it because it was cheap, but it was perfectly drinkable and not bad.