In Germany, he states, almost 40% of households own a single-cup brewing machine.

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In 1998, it began to partner with Keurig, a single-cup coffee brewing machine maker to manufacture and sell the K-cups, and bought the whole company in 2006.

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The machine responds by brewing a cup.

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The models involved are the 12-cup coffeemaker version with a molded handle the same color as the machine and a silver metallic bracket running around the glass near the bottom, the safety commission's recall announcement said.

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With the help of Vue brewers (which has a much higher price tag than K-cup brewers) and another espresso machine that Green Mountain plans to launch in late 2012 or early 2013, that figure could get a further boost.

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Because, really, you can never truly feel close to a coffee machine until it's taunted you to jump up and down to fill your cup of joe.

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Franz Beckenbauer's West German machine won the 1972 Euro and 1974 World Cup, then lost the 1976 Euro in a penalty-kick shootout.

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